Device for attaching stay-ropes to tent-poles.



J. E. DILG..

DEVICE FOR ATTAGHING STAY ROPES T0 TENT POLES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN, 3/1910.

Patented June 7, 1910.

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JOSEPH E. DILG, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO DOUGHERTY BROS. TENT& AWNING COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION.

DEVICE FOR ATTACHING STAY-ROPES TO TENT-POLES.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrrr E. DILG, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for AttachingStay-Ropes to Tent-Poles, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improved device providing for the attachmentof stay ropes to the poles of tents.

Heretofore it has been the common practice to provide for the attachmentof stay ropes to tent poles by producing loops of rope which are appliedto tent poles and receive the stay ropes in order to provide for theseveral poles in the tents being properly sustained in uprightpositions, and it has further been a common practice to cover the loopsof rope referred to with leather, or other suitable material. Attachmentmeans of the kind referred to have, however, proven unsatisfactory forthe reason that they become worn after a short time, due to frictionbetween the attachments and the pole and due, furthermore, to the factthat the leather or similar covering becomes deteriorated after a shorttime, owing to the action of the elements thereupon, with the result notonly of destruction of the coverings, but also destruction of the ropesin the loops and the surrounding portions of the tent canvas to such anextent as to render them useless, and occasion tearing of the tentcanvas adjacent to the poles.

It is the object of my present invention to provide an attachment devicethat is strong and durable and in the use of which the stay ropes intents and the canvas of the tents will not be injuriously aifected bythe attachments, and which attachments in themselves are of such natureas to withstand all possible wear to which they may be subjected, due tomovement thereof upon the tent poles.

Figure I is a top or plan view of one of my attaching devices in placeupon an eave pole of a tent, and the parts of the tent directlyassociated with said device. Fig. II is a vertical section taken throughthe device and parts shown in Fig. I. Fig. III

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 3, 1910.

Patented June "Z, 1919.

Serial No. 536,049.

is a perspective view of one of my devices suitable for use upon aquarter pole, or ridge pole, of a tent.

In the accompanying drawings :A designates a fragment of tent canvas andB is an eave pole for a tent having a reduced upper end or neck Z).

G is a stay rope that may extend down wardly from either a quarter poleor a. ridge pole in a tent and D is a stay rope extending upwardly fromthe. ground.

E is an eave or runner rope attached to the cave edge of the tent canvasA.

1 designates my attaching device as a whole and which is in the form ofa metal plate having an opening 2 extending approximately through thecenter thereof.

The attaching device comprises an eye 3 located at one of its ends andto which the stay rope C is applied, as seen most clearly in Fig. II,and a loop eye 4 at the opposite end of the device which receives thestay rope I), the eye 3 being arranged. horizontally, while the loop eye4 is arranged vertically. The loop eye l which, when the attachingdevice is mounted upon an eave pole and is located at the cave of thetent, also serves to receive the eave or runner rope E which, by passingthrough the loop eye 1s caused to be held in place by the attachingdevice. l

The attaching device also comprises an annular vertical flange 5 thatsurmounts the plate of the attaching device at the location of theopening 2 therein and is provided at its upper end with an outwardlyprojecting head 6. The flange 5 serves as a collar around the neck 6 ofthe tent pole around which the canvas of the tent top through which aperforation is made is tightly drawn by cord that may be wrapped aroundthe canvas and the collar and which may also be utilized for theproduction of a seam or seams to unite the edges of the canvas at thelocation of the perforation in the tent top. The head 6 acts to retainthe canvas in position around the collar so that it may not slipupwardly on the collar with resultant dislodgment.

The attaching device is preferably reinforced at the junction of theeyes 3 and t with the body of the attaching device, as seen at w, toafford increased strength at these points, the reinforcementbeingobtained by making the eyes thicker than the body device and providinggradual tapers leading from the eyes to the body of the device.

In Fig. III, I have shown a modification or varied form of my attachingdevice suitable for use upon a quarter pole or ridge pole of a tent,this latter construction embodying the device proper 1 having tourcorner eyes 8 similar to the eye 3 in the previously describedconstruction to which four stay ropes may be secured. The device 1. isprovided with a central aperture 2 and is surmounted by an annularflange 5 having an outwardly extending bead 6 these parts being similarto those in the construction previously described and being adapted tohave the tent top fitted thereto, as in the first describedconstruction.

It will be readily understood that either of the attaching devicesherein shown and described may play upon the necks at the upper ends ofthe tent poles to which they are fitted to any necessary degree withoutwear upon either the stay ropes or the canvas of the tent, and that,inasmuch as the devices are made out of metal, which material therewitha collar dange extending upwardly at the location of the tent polereceiving perforation, around which a portion of a tent canvas may besecured.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a plate provided witha perforation to receive a tent pole, eyes to receive stay ropes, andintegral therewith a collar flange extending upwardly from said plate atthe location of the tent pole receiving perforation, the said flangebeing provided at its upper end with an outturned bead, and adapted toreceive a portion of a tent canvas confined beneath said bead.

E. B. LINN, H. G. 0001:.

